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endowment

[en-dou-muhnt] / ɛnˈdaʊ mənt /
NOUN
large gift
Synonyms
STRONGEST
bequest donation fund funding grant income inheritance largess nest egg pension revenue stipend subsidy trust
STRONG
award benefaction benefit bestowal boon bounty dispensation gratuity legacy presentation property provision stake
WEAK
gifting
Antonyms
STRONGEST
debt
STRONG
disadvantage
WEAK
drawback inability loss weakness
NOUN
personal talent, ability
Synonyms
STRONGEST
faculty gift
STRONG
aptitude attribute capability capacity flair genius power qualification quality turn
WEAK
habilitation
Antonyms
STRONG
impotence inability inaptitude incapacity incompetence ineptness
WEAK
drawback loss weakness

Example Sentences

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Harvard credits its strong endowment returns to such investments, which are 77% of its portfolio; only 14% is in public equities.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

Families earning $85,000 would pay a total of nearly $77,000 over four years at a private college subject to the endowment tax.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 1, 2026

Support also came from the Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship and the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics through an endowment from the Kavli Foundation and its founder Fred Kavli.

From Science Daily • Mar. 1, 2026

So why was the board of trustees not willing to talk with the students about what Columbia’s endowment was invested in?

From Salon • Feb. 25, 2026

According to the linguistic school currently on top, human beings are all born with a genetic endowment for recognizing and formulating language.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.